Michael Stahl added the comment:
(note that i haven't used any Solaris myself since 2011)
* the #ifdef SOLARIS block still exists in current hg checkout
* according to comment http://bugs.python.org/msg18910 the SOLARIS
macro can not be defined during a build of python itself, so:
New submission from Michael Stahl:
building with MSVC2012 and the Windows SDK 8.0 fails
according to this page, the fci.lib is no longer available
and cabinet.lib should be used instead:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vcgeneral/thread/3b85f36e-dffe-4589-adc3-13673b349812/
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Michael Stahl added the comment:
we carry a patch in LibreOffice for exactly this problem:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/tree/external/python3/python-3.3.0-i42553.patch.2
this was found many years ago in OOo:
https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=42553
there is at least